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Has Lupus, Coughing Up Blood, Loosing Weight. What Could Be The Reason For Thrush In Mouth?
my sister is 54 has lupus, she recently had a few days of coughing up blood, her face definitely has the butterfly, she doesn't eat, she keeps losing weight, she always hurts and is tired, her mouth is full of thrush, the recently cut her finger off cuz they could not get the infection gone, her doctor told her last week to live the rest of her life to the fullest and they would do a cat scan to see if anything else might be going on but they thought it was just the lupus, what does this mean for my sister, what are they really saying
Sat, 16 Nov 2013
Hello, I have gone through your query and understood your concern. I'm sorry to say this but in my opinion lupus causes multi organ failure inside the body and the disease is incurable so the doctors might have said to live her last period of life happily. The medications used for this disease themselves might cause other side effects( could be reason for oral thrush) including osteoporosis, hypertension, myopathy. Prognosis is not so good and depends on degree of organ involvement. Hope it helped you. Thank you.
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